Mary Pipher Quotes About Anorexia

Quotes about: Anorexia

• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  Mary Pipher

  Men, Thinking, Feet

• In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Years, Anorexia

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

• Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Anorexia, Healthy

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

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